Please explain what is going on with public land.

[shrapnel]

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I went to Costco today and couldn’t get any tinfoil. I think I know why now.

 

[Hunting Wife]

Good data.

I’d sum the current public land issues up as a legitimate threat augmented by a heaping helping of NRA-style fundraising fear-mongering.

Interior Transfers 1.4 Million Acres in Dalton Utility Corridor to State of Alaska | U.S. Department of the Interior

Alaska – Today, the Department of the Interior announced a major Alaska statehood land transfer to convey approximately 1.4 million acres of land along the Dalton Utility Corridor to the State of Alaska. With conveyance of these lands north of the Yukon River, the Bureau of Land Management has...

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Bill Would Transfer 140,000 Acres of National Forest Land in Louisiana

One-third of Louisiana's only National Forest could be transfered from state to local control for "economic development."

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Public land transfer bill

H.R. 2405/ S.1088 Currently, there is approximately 37,000 acres of surface Trust lands within reservations. Most of which are in the standing rock reservation. If this bill passes those acres would then belong to the tribe. The state would then get to pick from another approx 180,000 acres...

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As Jackson annexes a small parcel of national forest, the novel public-private partnership raises questions about building employee housing on public lands.

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There are more in the works (see Utah, for example), but you get the gist. It ceases to be hyperbolic when it’s actually happening

 

[Treeshark]

It ceases to be hyperbolic when it’s actually happening

By definition of the word, that is not necessarily true.

Where do you feel this current term will end up in terms of percentage lost? I would guess (and hope) low single-digits.

 

[Hunting Wife]

By definition of the word, that is not necessarily true.

Where do you feel this current term will end up in terms of percentage lost? I would guess (and hope) low single-digits.

If you’re in Louisiana, 45%. If you’re in North Dakota, 30-some %?

Death by a thousand cuts.

 

[Treeshark]

If you’re in Louisiana, 45%. If you’re in North Dakota, 30-some %?

Death by a thousand cuts.

Could be, agree. Like I said earlier- there are headwinds to be sure, but I do feel at times that the threat is magnified to whip people up.

Paradoxically, the DT-selected Supreme Court’s refusal to take up the Wyoming Corner Crossing case could be credited for opening up access to a few million acres of BLM

 

[Hunting Wife]

Could be, agree. Like I said earlier- there are headwinds to be sure, but I do feel at times that the threat is magnified to whip people up.

Paradoxically, the DT-selected Supreme Court’s refusal to take up the Wyoming Corner Crossing case could be credited for opening up access to a few million acres of BLM

Respectfully, the court decision doesn’t mean shit when they give it away.

 

[Treeshark]

Respectfully, the court decision doesn’t mean shit when they give it away.

Forgive me, but I don’t understand your point. Why not?

 

[Irrelevant]

Remember, rule #1 is, if it's your team that's perceived to be at fault, it's just hyperbole.

 

[Irrelevant]

It's a bit yin and yang, it is incredibly hard to make large monumental changes to almost anything at a federal level. However, we're seeing considerable effort on this front. One has to speculate, at least, that much of the reason why people can't, let's say, sell all the federal land tomorrow, is that there are a shit ton of intelligent, effective people defending against that.

So is it hyperbole, or is it that because you're not doing anything to stop it, that it's really not happening?

 

[BuzzH]

Could be, agree. Like I said earlier- there are headwinds to be sure, but I do feel at times that the threat is magnified to whip people up.

Paradoxically, the DT-selected Supreme Court’s refusal to take up the Wyoming Corner Crossing case could be credited for opening up access to a few million acres of BLM

How in the actual f$%# are you spinning that to make it sound like the Supreme court gets credit for corner crossing?

I can tell you that people on this board made significantly more impact getting that TO the Supreme court....either through time, money, or both.

Lets be serious.

 

[Treeshark]

Look, we can argue until the cows come home about who did what- it doesn’t really matter. The SC declining to hear that case was one of the biggest wins for public land hunters of DT’s entire second term. Net acres of public land open to hunting have likely increased quite a bit in the past few years, which was unexpected.

And stop swearing. It’s uncouth.

 

[338win]

Public land is valuable. Rich assholes and dipshit politicians will try to get it because that’s what they do. Greedy individuals are going to be greedy.

 

[Bigjay73]

Hunters are the greediest group I know.

 

[Treeshark]

There are more in the works (see Utah, for example), but you get the gist.

I did some quick math: if you add up every acre of the four articles you posted, the total would be about half of the federal Wilderness land that has been off-limits to DIY hunters from 49 states (since 1957).

I wonder sometimes if we are clutching our pearls over the wrong issues.